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On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Gov.Terry McAuliffe signed HB 1750— the Virginia Right To Try Act — into law. The Goldwater Institute, an advocate for "Right to Try," issued this statement: "The Virginia House and Senate passed the bill in February with unanimous bipartisan support. This makes Virginia the 11th state in the country to adopt Right To Try, and the third this week. The bill was sponsored by state Delegate Margaret Ransone. “We all know the pain of losing someone we love to a terminal illness,” said Darcy Olsen, the president of the Goldwater Institute, the group leading the national, bipartisan Right To Try effort. “If you know...

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On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Gov.Terry McAuliffe signed HB 1750— the Virginia Right To Try Act — into law.
The Goldwater Institute, an advocate for "Right to Try," issued this statement:
"The Virginia House and Senate passed the bill in...

She will never know if her husband would have survived if he'd received appropriate help within the critical four-minute window.
Larry Wiese, 51, an engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding, collapsed at his desk on April 28, 2014. Colleagues heard him fall...

The most widely prescribed painkiller in the U.S. is becoming harder for patients to obtain.
Over the objections of professional medical organizations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration changed hydrocodone-containing painkillers — there are 200...

The latest government report on rates of reportable sexually transmitted diseases has good and bad news for the Peninsula and Hampton Roads.
In its summary of 2013 rates for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 50 metropolitan areas, the U.S. Centers for...

On Monday, members of the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee referred SB1277 Contraceptive Equity to the Health Insurance Reform Commission, effectively killing the bill for 2015.
Women's advocacy groups expressed their disappointment in this delay in...

Update: The former owner of Hampton Pipe and Tobacco, Jason Mickle, 29, was among the 10 people arrested yesterday in a multi-agency drug raid, according to a press release issued by Dana Boente, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of...

Virginia so far allows people to possess marijuana if prescribed for treatment of cancer or glaucoma, and now Del. Dave Albo, R-Springfield, is proposing to allow its use to treat epilepsy, too.
He’s introducing a bill before the 2015 General Assembly...

The American Lung Association reports: "For the first time ever, a national study found e-cigarette use among teens exceeds traditional cigarette smoking. The study, “Monitoring the Future,” also found that e-cigarette use among 8th and 10th...

UPDATE: The online report gave information that the proposed 757 Angels network would take 2 percent equity ownership in presenting companies funded by at least one member. Paul Hirschbiel, study co-chair, said this is no longer being considered.
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MotherToBaby reports:
In a move that was several decades in the making, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published a final rule that requires prescription drugs and biological products include more detailed labeling about their risks...

Production problems that delayed delivery of the seasonal flu vaccine to a number of providers have been resolved, according to Craig Parrish, director of pharmacy services for the Virginia Department of Health.
"The situation we're dealing with now...

Patients may notice a difference in the sheets, gowns and towels at the Sentara Careplex Hospital in Hampton.
"It's a very cool way of improving health every day — looking at something basic like something you sleep on," Sentara Careplex...

WILLIAMSBURG – GOP Senate nominee Ed Gillespie said Wednesday that he'll roll out his long-promised health plan on Friday, and he previewed the plan during a lunchtime speech to the local Kiwanis Club.
He said it would preserve tax credits that employers...

In a way, what Judge James Spencer is going to ask jurors in the trial of Bob and Maureen McDonnell to do will be to read the minds of the former governor and first lady of Virginia.
And the way he asks them to figure out the McDonnells' intent when they...

RICHMOND — Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell twice moved Star Scientific stock out of her account at year's end, the McDonnell family broker said Friday, skirting state reporting requirements for public officials as she and her husband took gifts...

Only 4.5 percent of women under the age of 20 use long-acting reversible contraception, despite growing evidence of its safety and effectiveness.
"Many providers have not been counseling adolescents about the use of an IUD (intrauterine device)...

Put down that whey protein shake — bugs could be the next nutrition trend.
According to Daniella Martin, author of “Edible: An Adventure Into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet,” bodybuilders and extreme athletes “tend...